Do fear the Reaper - stealer swipes macOS users' passwords, wallets, then backdoors them
While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack
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While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack
Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…
Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…
This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at risk AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.…
PLUS: Cyber-exec admits selling secrets to Russia; LastPass isn't checking to see if you're dead; Nation-state backed Windows malware; and more Infosec in brief Australia’s Signals Directorate (ASD) last Friday warned that attackers are installing an implant named “BADCANDY” on unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices and can detect deletion of their wares and reinstall their malware.…
Upgraded nasty slips into Xcode builds, steals crypto, and disables macOS defenses The long-running XCSSET malware strain has evolved again, with Microsoft warning of a new macOS variant that expands its bag of tricks while continuing to target developers.…
Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Data I/O, a major electronics manufacturer whose customers include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft, notified federal regulators that it fell victim to a ransomware infection on August 16 that continues to disrupt its business operations.…
Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…
Look over there! Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond reported the bug to Cupertino, which issued a fix back in March.…
Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar Scammers are hijacking the search results of people needing 24/7 support from Apple, Bank of America, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, and PayPal in an attempt to trick victims into handing over personal or financial info, according to Malwarebytes senior director of research Jérôme Segura.…
Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti Patch Tuesday It's that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but rates as important rather than critical fixes.…
Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday bundle has appeared, with a dirty dozen flaws competing for your urgent attention – six of them rated critical and another six already being exploited by criminals.…
Known for popping zero-days of yesteryear, Microsoft puts Apple devs on high alert Microsoft says there's a new variant of XCSSET on the prowl for Mac users – the first new iteration of the malware since 2022.…
Like keeping your camera and microphone private? Patch up In revealing details about a vulnerability that threatens the privacy of Apple fans, Microsoft urges all macOS users to update their systems.…
Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem A years-old security oversight has been addressed in basically all web browsers – Chromium-based browsers, including Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, WebKit browsers like Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox.…
Sectigo bosses claim it's only a matter of time before Microsoft and Apple drop Big E from their root stores too After falling down in the estimations of major browser makers Google and Mozilla, Entrust faces a lengthy fight on its hands to regain industry trust and once more issue trusted TLS certificates.…
Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild Happy May Patch Tuesday. We've got a lot of vendors joining this month's patchapalooza, which includes a handful of bugs that have been exploited — either in the wild or at Pwn2Own — and now fixed by Microsoft, Apple, Google and VMware.…
Microsoft fixed 36 flaws. Adobe addressed 212. Apple, Google, Cisco, VMware and Atlassian joined the party It's the last Patch Tuesday of 2023, which calls for celebration – just as soon as you update Windows, Adobe, Google, Cisco, FortiGuard, SAP, VMware, Atlassian and Apple products, of course.…
Plus: Apple bungles another rapid security response; important ICS updates land; and more Patch Tuesday Microsoft today addressed 130 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its products – and five of those bugs have already been exploited in the wild.…
Insert your Trojan joke here Security researchers at Microsoft have discovered a bug in macOS that lets malicious apps bypass Apple's Gatekeeper security software "for initial access by malware and other threats." …